Americans are sharply divided by race in their opinion of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida by a Hispanic neighborhood watchman.

A Gallup/USA Today poll finds that most black Americans (73 percent) think Trayvon Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, would have been arrested if Martin had been white. Only 33 percent of non-Hispanic white people said the same thing.

The racial divide on Zimmerman's guilt was also big: 51 percent of black people said Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the information available, compared to only 10 percent of whites. About 20 percent of both whites and blacks said Zimmerman was "probably guilty."(continued)

there is a great racial divide because most sane americans have been able to get the real details of this incident, thus notice the lack of stories now.....even the lamestream media are realizing they ginned up this whole racist incident themselves, and the black americans are, as they did/do with obama, stick to their guns based solely on race....

A Gallup/USA Today poll finds that most black Americans (73 percent) think Trayvon Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, would have been arrested if Martin had been white. Only 33 percent of non-Hispanic white people said the same thing.

Obviously, the non-Hispanic white people are wrong and need to have their consciousness raised.

/s

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posted on 04/06/2012 9:40:44 AM PDT
by Maceman
(Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)

There was a time when a black man could be lynched on anybody's say-so.

I'm being pedantic here (or something) but I just feel like pointing out that the total number of people who were considered "lynched" was around 3000 -- that covers the entire post-Civil War era. Three thousand. And not all of them were black (whites (often Jews), Indians, etc were lynched as well as Blacks).

The conventional wisdom is that an epidemic of lynching swept the country for decade after decade. Like most of this crap, the hysteria over lynching is mostly garbage.

I'm not sure how many whites are murdered by blacks every year, but it's a pretty big number. But Whites are the bad guys. It's racist to ever say anything else.

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posted on 04/06/2012 9:48:13 AM PDT
by ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)

Yes they are...no thanks to Moambo who purposely touched the emotional buttons he knew would rile the black community.

However as I see it Martin Luther King changed the equation long ago...and "whitey" shifted for that...but many in the black community remained in the 70's mindset....sometimes you can 'free' an individual to be all they can be but they have to want to be and forge ahead.....most of the black community has moved forward and are living life....those we are hearing from now are "stuck" with the likes of Sharpton, Jackson...and Farrakan...and Obamanites...and for that will never have life to the fullest....their loss.

at least 4,743 people lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 of them black, 154 of them women,[3] 73 percent of them in the South.[4]

A tragedy, sure, but this number is small compared to amount of black-on-white violence we live with today. Everyone agrees that lynching was bad. Today, the black-on-white violence is often passed off as a by-product of White Racism and Oppression of Blacks -- in other words: whites deserve it.

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posted on 04/06/2012 9:56:47 AM PDT
by ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)

OJ Simpson trial, same thing: Race.
The photos of audiences viewing the verdict on TV show jubilant black people and glum white people.
`Jubilant’ because OJ beat the legal system’; `Glum’ because a man who cut his ex-wife’s throat so severely that she was like a human Pez dispenser—and stabbed to death her lover as well—walked away.
It looks like fake black outrage to me.

It cracks me up the way the left likes to tell us the US is becoming increasingly diverse, meaning non-white... until instances like this when they want us to believe America consists of only poor benighted blacks and racist whites.

The racial divide on Zimmerman's guilt was also big: 51 percent of black people said Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the information available

Given the false and misleading information in the mainstream media (NBC, ABC, et al.), and the asinine things spouted by folks like Jesse Jackson (told a church Trayvon was shot in the head) it's amazing only 51% of black people have concluded Zimmerman is "definitely guilty" based on the propaganda they specifically have been fed.

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